I love this sketch.
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Animavore wrote:I love this sketch.
One of my all-time favourite comedy sketches.
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Thanks for the warning, Devo. I shall heed it. Ignorance is not necessarily bliss, but I suspect that in this case it may prevent a great deal of aggravation.devogue wrote:http://www.yes-minister.com/thatcherscript.htmAnimavore wrote:devogue wrote:Never ever watch the sketch written by Margaret Thatcher, starring her, and performed (unwillingly) by Hawthorne and Eddington.
It's excruciating beyond excruciating.You serious?
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Fantastic show. It's like Fawlty Towers in that I wish by some magic they could make more of them. It makes me sad that I will never see a new Yes (Prime) Minister or Fawlty Towers.
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Truely inspired show, and still just as relevant.
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Sometime in the future, a freakishly brilliant AI, using CGI millions of times more realistic than today, will do all that and more...rEvolutionist wrote:Fantastic show. It's like Fawlty Towers in that I wish by some magic they could make more of them. It makes me sad that I will never see a new Yes (Prime) Minister or Fawlty Towers.
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I only watch them all for the first time quite recently, but thought they were absolutely brilliant. To my horror I then stumbled across an attempted 2013 new series. Same characters played by different actors entirely differently, overacting, lacking the subtlety and wit, yet still trying to squeeze them into similar roles as before, while somehow ignoring that they haven't aged and are still in office 25 years later. It was bizarre. Would have made much more sense to create entirely new characters, and get some decent writers in for some new scripts rather than trying to emulate the original.rEvolutionist wrote:Fantastic show. It's like Fawlty Towers in that I wish by some magic they could make more of them. It makes me sad that I will never see a new Yes (Prime) Minister or Fawlty Towers.
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